Prediction is a type of prophecy in
which information concerning future event is obtained through psychic gifts,
divine inspiration, the reading of signs, or the altering of consciousness.
Usually prophecy is thought as being on a grand scale, concerning large
groups of people, while prediction mostly concerns individuals. Most psychic
readings are based on questions that obtain information about probable events
in the individual's future.

Usually prediction are based on precognition, or future knowledge, which
can be retrieved from intuition, dreams, visions in scrying,
or through reading signs in astrology, Tarot,
palmistry or numerology. In shamanic or oracle cultures, mind-altering drugs
may be taken to induce prophecy, which is believed to be divinely or supernaturally
inspired.

Predictions may be colored by perceptions and prejudices of the individual.
These are often hard to detect because time is not linear, but is in the
ever-present now. A.G.H.